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| Definition of Human development |
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| Concerned with how and why people change over time as well as how and why they remain the same |
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| discuss Continuity vs discontinuity |
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| Continual progression throughout life vs Identifiable stages |
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List internal factors in Human Development
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| genetics, physical maturation and cognition |
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List external factors in human devlopment
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| environmental and social interactions |
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Biology and Environment
describe Nature |
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Biology and Environment
Describe Nurture |
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| continual progression from beginning of life to the end |
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growth as occurring in identifiable stages each with distinct problems & characteristics
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| : variable can be changed “independently” of other factors; “cause |
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: this variable “depends” on what happens to subjects in the experiment; “effect”
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| studying the same individuals over a “long” period of time |
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| comparison of people at various ages |
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combination of longitudinal and cross sectional designs; starts with a cross sectional studies of individuals with different ages then after some time, the same individuals are tested again
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| a mathematical statistic that indicates whether 2 variables are related to each other |
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| one variable changes in the same direction as another variable changes |
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when 2 variables are inversely related; when one goes up the other goes down
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| when change in one variable causes a change in another |
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changes due to a subject’s time of birth or generation but not actually to “age”
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| interprets human behavior and development in terms of intrinsic drives and motives, many of which are unconscious |
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a term used in operant conditioning to explain anything that “increases” a behavior
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| term used in operant conditioning to explain anything that “decreases” a behavior |
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| Zone of proximal development (ZPD) |
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range of skills that can be used without assistance versus what can be obtained with help
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